Raritan Headwaters to host Shedfest Music Festival on June 2 

Festival on June 2 from 2 to 7 p.m. at Fairview Farm Wildlife Preserve in Bedminster.

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The festival will include live music from Hub Hollow, Hawks & Doves, and Nick Dunbar & Sad Cowboy, according to the festival’s Eventbrite. There will be food trucks, including Testo Pizza, Angry Archie’s, Marley’s Wings & Things and Cream of the Crop, and craft beer and cider from Burnt Mills Cider and Sunken Silo Brew Works. There will also be a silent auction.

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Raritan Headwaters Association was founded in 1959 and serves “as the watchdog” for the 470-square-mile North and South Branch Raritan watershed, a region covering 38 municipalities in New Jersey’s Hunterdon, Somerset and Morris counties,” according to organization’s website. “Safeguarding these ‘headwaters’ means clean, safe water for 300,000 watershed residents and 1.5 million New Jerseyans living downstream in more urban areas that depend on the water that comes from our rivers and reservoirs.”

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Cindy Ehrenclou, senior director of development at the association, said this will be the fifth Shedfest.

The festival “builds in popularity every year,” Ehrenclou said. “I think folks enjoy the casual, outdoor environment on our bucolic wildlife preserve. The day is very kid-friendly, yet adults can enjoy great music, food trucks and fun activities while contributing to an organization that is protecting land, water and the environmental health of this special part of New Jersey.”

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Ehrenclou said the association hopes the festival raises “awareness about the need to protect clean water, wildlife habitats, open spaces and the other precious natural resources we all depend on.”

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General admission tickets are available online for $30 each and tickets will be on sale at the door for $50 on the day of the event, according to a news release. There is no charge for tickets for those under 12 years of age.

 

Parking is free and patrons are invited to bring their own chair or blanket. The festival is being held rain or shine. The preserve is located at 2121 Larger Cross Road.